Lunch & Learn Webinars
Available exclusively for EMDR Canada Members!
October 24, 2025 | 12 – 1 pm MST
AI for Therapists: A Closer Look with Klarify
Moody Abdul with Dr. Marina A. Badillo-Diaz
Offered in English
Attendees will learn how to evaluate AI tools for therapy practice, including understanding privacy standards, data security, and ethical considerations. They’ll leave with practical criteria for determining when and how AI can reduce administrative burden while maintaining the human-centered approach essential to therapeutic care.
November 7, 2025 | 12 – 1 pm MST
Teaching case conceptualization for complex trauma
Danielle Stam & Allison Cornell
Offered in English
Supporting growing clinicians in applying their own clinical insight to choose the right approach for their client. (Geared toward CITs, consultants, and those providing clinical supervision).
December 5, 2025 | 12 – 1 pm MST
The Predictive Processing Framework for Trauma Recovery
Thomas Zimmerman
Offered in English
Many neuroscience fields are organizing around the central role that predictions, prediction error, and precision weighting play in virtually every system that the brain regulates. It provides a potentially compelling framework that can explain EMDR’s efficacy, as well as the efficacy of many other forms of somatic psychotherapy. In this presentation, we will review the predictive processing framework as a way to transition away from the triune brain model. We will explore new metaphors for the neurobiology of trauma shaped by the predictive processing framework.
January 30, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST
EMDR & Couples – An Introduction
Kenya Rocha
Offered in English
You’ll learn to Identify relationship and attachment deficits with couples. Identify collaborative relationship based resources. Also, to recognize how to integrate EMDR therapy with couples.
February 13, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST
The Preparation Hierarchy: A Polyvagal-Informed Framework for Readiness and Intervention
Rebecca Kase
Offered in English
This webinar explores how Polyvagal Theory can enhance EMDR Therapy by deepening our understanding of client readiness for trauma reprocessing.
Participants will learn to assess and support autonomic regulation as a foundation for effective EMDR work. Through the lens of the Preparation Hierarchy, they will examine how safety, connection, and physiological flexibility align with EMDR Phase 2, helping clinicians tailor interventions to each client’s nervous system state.
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
- Integrate principles of Polyvagal Theory into EMDR Therapy to enhance stabilization and readiness.
- Examine the role of autonomic state in assessing readiness for EMDR reprocessing.
- Describe the components of the Preparation Hierarchy and their relationship to EMDR Phase 2 interventions.
March 13, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST
Clearing Chronic Pain, Long Covid, Tinnitus, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
Robin Shapiro
Offered in English
Participants will learn the foundational protocol for calming the nervous system and supporting physiological healing, as well as specialized applications for chronic pain, Long Covid, tinnitus, and multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).
Drawing from both Mark Grant’s pain-clearing methods and Robin Shapiro’s own protocols, this workshop offers clinicians a structured, compassionate framework to reduce suffering and promote nervous system balance.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
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Apply a basic EMDR and vagal calming protocol for physical symptom relief.
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Utilize Mark Grant’s and Robin Shapiro’s protocols for clearing chronic pain.
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Implement targeted EMDR and regulation strategies for tinnitus, Long Covid, and MCS.
April 10, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST
The Nest Metaphor: A somatic guide to case conceptualization, history taking, and preparation
Alison Leslie
Offered in English
Grounded in somatic therapy principles, this approach deepens understanding of client narratives while fostering safety and embodiment during EMDR Phase 2 preparation.
Participants will learn practical tools to integrate somatic awareness into case formulation, enhance therapeutic attunement, and support clients in building internal resources for healing.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Use The Nest Metaphor to conceptualize client history through a lens of curiosity and compassion.
- Apply three somatic therapy skills to enhance Phase 2 preparation in EMDR.
- Integrate embodiment practices that support regulation, safety, and readiness for trauma processing.
May 8, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST
OCD vs. OCPD: Understanding the Differences
Dr. Paula Krentzel
Offered in English
Participants will explore the defining features, behaviors, and thought patterns of each condition while examining areas of overlap—such as control, rigidity, and perfectionism—and key points of divergence in motivation, emotional experience, and relational impact.
Through practical examples and case-based discussion, clinicians will gain greater clarity in recognizing how these disorders present in everyday life and therapeutic settings, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and treatment planning.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the defining features, behaviors, and thought patterns of OCD and OCPD.
- Explain how these two conditions overlap in certain traits and diverge in motivation, emotion, and relational patterns.
- Recognize how OCD and OCPD may present in daily life and clinical interactions to reduce confusion and improve clinical precision.
EMDR Basic Training Courses
EMDR Basic Training is provided by a number of EMDR Basic Trainers in Canada and the USA. All of these courses are EMDRIA-approved Basic Training courses provided by EMDRIA-approved Trainers. Training is provided virtually/online and face-to-face at different locations throughout Canada.
Some members of EMDR Canada have completed the EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training course in the United States or virtually/online with a US based EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Trainer.
EMDR Canada provides information on these EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Trainers and Trainings. It is not possible for EMDR Canada to recommend one EMDR Trainer or EMDR Basic Training course over another. All courses listed here will provide you with the required EMDR training to become a member of EMDR Canada upon successful completion of the course requirements.
If you are an EMDR Trainer and wish to advertise your EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training course, please email for details and payment.
EMDR Basic Training
Barbara Horne
Niagara Stress & Trauma Clinic
Course Information
Sue Genest
Life Journeys Counselling and Training Inc.
